A 15cm Wide Fragment of the Seymchan Iron-nickel Meteorite Found in Russia in 1967 (IMAGE)

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A 15cm Wide Fragment of the Seymchan Iron-nickel Meteorite Found in Russia in 1967

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This is a 15cm wide fragment of the Seymchan iron-nickel meteorite found in Russia in 1967. The long filament of dark grey material in the centre is the phosphorus-rich mineral schreibersite.

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M. Pasek / University of South Florida.

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